Workmen's advocate., 1887-05-14
THE NEW CRUSADE. DIR. MCGLYNN HOUSES NEW
 HAVEN.
Carll's Opera House Crowded to Hear the "Soggarth ArO0n."-A Law Superior to the Laws of Church or State-I.and
 Must be Free.


 The meeting at Carll's Opera House under the auspices of the Land and Labor Club, composed Of members of the New Haven Labor Party, was great success. There were about l,j00 people present to hear Dr. McGlynn lecture upon "The Cross of New Crusade" and there is little doubt of the good eff feet of the lecture upon the minds of the spell-bound hearers.
 The Harugari Liedertafel render ed Griegg's Landkennung," and were encored, when they sang most beautifully the new Labor song "Der Noelker Freiheitssturm," by Julius Otto.
 The Doctor was introduced by Peter Lynch, the candidate of the Labor Party, last December, fol Mayor, who said
 Ut is my privilege to introduce to you reverend, learned and cultivated gen tleman, who will address you on sub feet which is receiving the attention oI the civilized world. He needs no intro ducton to you. lie is well known m New Haven, in Connecticut and in the United States, and Is not unknown to an oppressed people beyond the sea. Twenty years ago heard his voice in this city from pulpit of that God whose minister he is. pleading the cause ct temperance. lie spoke the truth then, he speaks it how introduce to you the Rev, Edward McGlynn."
 Loud and long was the cheering that greeted the speaker as he arose to speak. Unfortunately this little paper cannot hold all he said, but some of his words will be recorded. He said:
 The crusade of which I am to speak to you may be well called new crusade, but the army against which it is to be waged is as old as old can be. It is the fight of the weak against the strong, the oppressed against the tyrant, the help less and homeless against the rich and powerful. and we who would fight under it's banners must remember the sacred emblem from which we take our cross the sign of our Christian redemption. And far be it from me to teach from this or any other platform anything contrary in the least to the doctrines of the holy Catholic church. If l am not to day preaching in Catholic pulpits, it is not from wish of mine; but because I am not permitted to do so, and could do SC would gladly return.
 When Christ came upon the earth il was not so much to teach new truths as to better illustrate and exemplify the truths which have always been and al ways will be. It was to teach the doc trines of mercy, of justice and of truth to break down the barriers between man and man, to raise the masses and to teach the classes that all men have rights. Nothing can be true whcl clashes with other truths, and if a churcl requires man to believe anything of thu sort, it requires him to stultify his ma ture. Two and two make but four ant if any religious tribunal in Rome, il Canterbury. in Paris, or in Andover | Mass, asks man to believe it amounts | to five, it makes a mistake, that's all | Didn't few old monks, with few car dinals mixed in, get very much excited about 250 years ago because Calico sait the earth revolved around the sun? 0 course they did, and if they were aliy, l to-day they would be very much asham ed of themselves. Weren't there many people right here in this city who thirty years ago believed that slavery was divine institutionl Of course there were Every truth meets with violent oppos ition when first it is broached, from tn very ones from whom it ought to mee the warmest welcome.
 The object of our crusade is to brin, about, as far as we may, absolute justic in the world-that is, every one shoul' have exactly what belongs to him When we shall have succeeded then wi begin the kingdom of heaven on earth We strive to solve the labor question, question which next to saving their in mortal souls, most interests men to-day We teach the fatherhood of God and th brotherhood of men. Because we ar 1 the children of God we are brothers on to the other, and must respect and regar each other with absolute equality, justiC and fraternity.
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